Civil Rights Activist Cornel West Resigns From Harvard, Says School Is Racist & In “Decay”

Philosopher and activist Dr Cornel West has resigned from his position as a professor at Harvard University.  He wrote a letter that puts the university on blast for the mistreatment of him and other Black faculty members.

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Cornel sent in a letter to the school last month, to explain his resignation. He also published the letter on Twitter Monday night. The activist states the school rearranged his classes so that all courses taught by the first-ever Black graduate of Princeton’s doctorate philosophy program would be categorized in the box of “Afro-American religious studies,” per Independent.co.uk

The Philosopher stated “This is my candid letter of resignation to my Harvard Dean. I try to tell the unvarnished truth about the decadence in our market-driven universities! Let us bear witness against this spiritual rot!” 

In his letter, Dr West wrote that Harvard’s administration displayed an “intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep depths” at the university.

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“With a few glorious and glaring exceptions, the shadow of Jim Crow was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity,” wrote by, Dr West.